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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A woman who pleaded guilty to killing her husband by slipping rat poison into his food and drinks will be released from prison next week.

Continued woes at ESPN are a sore spot for Disney investors. That's why one Wall Street analyst is suggesting that Disney could spin off the sports cable network and focus even more on its movie studios and theme parks.

HARVEY, La. — The Latest on the fatal shooting of ex-NFL player Joe McKnight, who was killed during a road rage dispute (all times local):

Veteran Finn will head to the Marlies on a professional tryout offer.

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For over two decades, cities around the world have used red light and speed cameras to help enforce traffic laws.

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is betting that giant robots could be more effective (and promote safety in sub-Saharan Africa, where over 2,200 deaths occur from car accidents every year).

The first two bots — which stand over eight feet tall and weigh 550 pounds — were installed on the sides of two intersections in 2013. Читать дальше...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Viviane Goncalves cries softly as she explains why she believes her husband was killed.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Viviane Goncalves cries softly as she explains why she believes her husband was killed.

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It sounds like Wall Street banks are having a strong fourth quarter.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Bank of America Merrill Lynch CEO Brian Moynihan both shed some light on their firms' performance in the markets business, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference on Tuesday.

JPMorgan's markets division is up about 15% year-over-year in the fourth quarter, Dimon said, while BAML's fixed income, currency, and commodities sales and... Читать дальше...

A first year B.Tech student of Gautam Buddha University (GBU) has gone missing from the campus for the past three days.

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David Kostin, the chief US equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, thinks there is good news coming in 2017, but investors shouldn't be complacent.

Kostin and his team project that the S&P 500 will rise to 2,400 next year, though a late sell-off will bring the index down to 2,300 by year-end. Still, even that latter figure is a nearly 100 points above where the index stands today.

This solid outlook, however, does come with some caveats. As part of a note detailing their 2017 projections... Читать дальше...

The Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development is facing a huge task of disposing of over 400 immovable assets owned by the provincial government.

(AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of ex-NFL player Joe McKnight, who was killed during a road rage dispute (all times local): A sheriff in Louisiana is defending the investigation of a man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight during a road rage dispute. On Tuesday, a day after Gasser was arrested and charged with manslaughter, the sheriff said Gasser had been released for strategic investigative reasons and because authorities needed to talk to witnesses.

SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Prosecutor-General Kim Soo-nam on Tuesday directed the special probe team looking into the on-going influence-peddling scandal to work closely with the new independent counsel and hand over the investigation mate

Bank holiday in Noida on account of Ambedkar Jayanti on Tuesday led to long queues in front of Automated Teller Machine (ATMs) in sectors 1, 18 and 63 mostly. But cash strapped ATMs could not cover the cash crunch faced by residents across the city.

The authorities in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana initially did not arrest Ronald Gasser, the 54-year-old man who shot and killed former NFL running back Joe McKnight last week. Gasser has since been arrested for manslaughter. Sheriff Newell Normand, whose press conference from Friday seemed unreasonably defensive and unnecessarily combative, took it to the next level on…

With the current developments in Mobile Technology, I must say that many Smartphone users have a lot to look forward to in 2017.

(AP) — State police have helped cops in a Pennsylvania town keep a Facebook promise they made to an armed robbery suspect: "We WILL find you." About 100 miles away in Bridgeville, police got a warrant charging Watkins with a Thanksgiving Day gas station robbery.

With both sides knowing a win will ensure top spot in the group, our tipster is backing a game with plenty of goals when Thomas Tuchel's men visit

The carrier strike group Dwight D. Eisenhower resumed operations in support of US-led coalition operations against Daesh terror group, the US Navy said in a press release on Tuesday.

Mark Hettich, 8, Solen, noon Wednesday, Dec. 7, Spirit of Life Catholic Church, Mandan. (Bismarck Funeral Home)

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TOKYO (AP) — An American president in Hiroshima. A Japanese prime minister at Pearl Harbor. One longtime taboo has already fallen this year, and the other soon will.

On Dec. 27, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the Hawaiian U.S. naval base attacked by Japan in 1941. He will be joined by President Barack Obama, who seven months earlier traveled to Hiroshima to pay tribute to the 140,000 people killed there by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945. The two attacks bookend World War II in the Pacific. Читать дальше...

Eric Lindros and Matt Dunigan call for blanket protocol across country

In her new book, Dorie’s Cookies, Dorie Greenspan addresses home cooks’ resistance to the kitchen scale

The productivity figure was unchanged from an initial estimate a month ago while the 0.7 percent rise in unit labor costs was slightly higher than an initial estimate of a 0.3 percent gain. Economists are forecasting that productivity will return to the anemic gains seen over the past nine years. Since 2007, annual productivity increases have averaged just 1.3 percent. The revised estimates for productivity and output follow the government's revisions to the gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, last week.